Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath (2024) | onestarfoundation.org
Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath (2024) | onestarfoundation.org
Data showed that Houston ISD schools welcomed 189,934 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Hispanic students comprised 61.8% of the student body to be one of the most represented ethnicities in the district.
Houston ISD roughly covers schools within Harris County and has a main office in Houston.
Among the 272 schools in Houston ISD schools, Texas Connections Academy at Houston recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 3,262 students.
Texas is found to be one of the least-educated states in the U.S. A study from WalletHub ranked Texas 41st out of 50 states in terms of the quality of the educational system and how successful students were.
More than 5.4 million students are enrolled in public schools across Texas. Nearly one million of them live in rural areas where options for local public schools are few and far between.
| Year | Total District Enrollment | Total of Hispanic Students | Hispanic students % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | 189,934 | 117,366 | 61.8% |
| 2021-22 | 194,607 | 120,330 | 61.8% |
| 2020-21 | 196,943 | 121,437 | 61.7% |
| 2019-20 | 210,061 | 130,962 | 62.3% |
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